The regular sitting of the Government of Armenia took place today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The Government made a decision to make redistribution and amendments in the law on ''State Budget of the Republic of Armenia, 2021'', amendments in the Government decision No. 2215-N of December 30, 2020, and on providing an interstate credit to the Government of the Republic of Artsakh, allocating funds to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia. The total amount of allocated funds is 13.4 billion AMD.

The Prime Minister said, ‘’Since November 2020, our actual allocations to Artsakh are approaching 100 billion AMD. Before this allocation, we had actually spent 77 billion AMD, and 85 billion AMD had been allocated. Now we are allocating another 13 billion AMD, making the total allocations, excuding the actual expenditure, 98 billion AMD. This is an important record. Of course, we must not forget that the logic of pure support must be replaced, as soon as possible, with the logic of development, but what is being done is a necessity and vital. We are working very closely with the Government of Artsakh in this direction, so that the content of the programs should shift from the logic of assistance to the logic of development''.

The Government approved the draft decision to make redistribution in the law on ''State Budget of the Republic of Armenia, 2021'', amendments in the Government decision No. 2215-N of December 30, 2020, and allocating funds to the Ministry of Education, Sceince, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia.

It's planned to hold an amateur road cycling "Cup of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia" on the 40 km long section of the Shorzha- Sevan Peninsula in 2 age groups for women and men on September 19, 2021. The total cost of the event will be about 25.7 million AMD. In total, there will be about 80 award winners. The winner of the first place will receive 1 million AMD, the second - 600 000 AMD, the third - 400 000 AMD, the 4th - 150 000 AMD, the 5th - 100 000 AMD, 6-10 - 75 000 AMD each, and the 11th-20th places - 50 000 AMD each. An exchange of views was held in connection with the holding of non-professional seasonal tournaments in Armenia, other issues related to the holding of competitions in other sports and the expansion of the circle of participants were discussed.

The Government approved the draft decision to make redistribution and amendments in the law on ''State Budget of the Republic of Armenia, 2021'', amendments in the Government decision No. 2215-N of December 30, 2020, which is conditioned by the necessity to carry out capital repairs of 6 road sections in 2021. It is planned to repair 51.1 km of road, the cost of which is 7.6 billion AMD. In response to the Prime Minister's question whether the Government continues to move forward with the logic of constructing 500 km of roads annually, Deputy Prime Minister Suren Papikyan noted that in 2021 construction of another 500 km of roads will be ensured, which does not include subsidized road construction and North-South. For his part, Minister of Territorial Administration Gnel Sanosyan reported that this year construction of 200 km roads with subsidies is planned.

Referring to the issue, Nikol Pashinyan said, '' I want to remind that in 2019 we set the bar of 500 km per year, where we did not count the work done with subventions and the "North-South". So the real outcome is over 500 km, and it's very important. As for subsidies, we must definitely improve the mechanism related to community budgets, which we have already agreed on’’.